He admitted to taking a £69 coffee machine from Waitrose on April 29. stealing a gas stove worth 15.99 from QD Stores on May 26, pocketing two cheese and ham baguettes from Greggs on May 30, and stealing a Gillette razor set valued £25 from Superdrug yesterday.

The sentencing comes just four months after McLeish was jailed for twelve weeks after he had admitted steeling more than £400 worth of goods from town shops in an eight day period in January.

Sgt Steve Duncan of Mildenhall and Brandon Safer neighbourhood Team said: ”McLeish is a prolific shoplifter so to see him receiving this custodial sentence is very gratifying – he was a persistent offender who choose not to change his criminal behaviour. We continue to work with town centre shops and CCTV in the area to reduce the number of shoplifting offences.”